Learning to cook tasty Thai food

Posted by Northerner on January 27th, 2012 filed in courses

Since the original Thai cooking school opened two decades ago, many visitors to Thailand have combined their trips with the unique opportunity of learning how to create delicious Thai dishes. Although there are now Thai cookery tuition schools all over Thailand, even after 20 years in the business the Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School is still rated the best. Thousands of budding chefs have completed short courses at the school and then gone home and produced Thai gastronomic gems that have wowed friends and family alike.

Proprietor Sompon Nabnian, who has appeared on the UK TV programme Holiday as well as National Geographic, leads a team of adroit cooks who teach students how to create delights that include yam neua (spicy beef salad) as well as the ever-popular gaeng kheow wan gai (green curry with chicken) and tom yam goong (spicy, sour prawn broth). The dessert menu includes khao neow dam piak (black sticky rice pudding).

The classes are not just confined to the classroom as courses include a getting to know Thai herbs and spices section, a trip to the local freshfood market and preparing the dishes in an area more than adequate for the task. Course participants also get to taste their own and other people’s finished masterpieces. An invaluable souvenir is the school’s own recipe book.

Friends over last year opted for the beginner’s course and said it was a fun day that left them feeling confident that they would be able to cook up some archetypal Thai specialities. Full details of Chiang Mai Thai Cookery School courses are available at http://www.thaicookeryschool.com/.